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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... implications for Simmons, MIT's newest dorm, only a few years old. It is West ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, is also professor in MIT ... Pluto, much crisper than the 1996 Hubble photo. Right now the probe is ... months before all the data is fully transmitted. But when the data is fully

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  told you that MIT is filled with nerds who are ultra-competitive and just ... problems/misconceptions one by one: Misconception #1: MIT is filled with ... . Everyone I have met at MIT is extremely passionate about something. If you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  awesome. The music program at MIT is actually quite strong, and one of the ... . Exactly how good is MIT's music? Well, I've performed in the Concert Choir ... the piece "MIT-oriented." Among other influences, the piece is based on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a bubble in that, as an MIT student, you start to forget what the outside ... Several weeks ago MIT had their famous fall Career Fair where

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... is very interested in what sets MIT students apart from students at ... this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  trip is no different. Last night, I missed the lastest from MIT's Nobel ... opportunities. It is always interesting to read your stories, to learn more about ... admitted to MIT -- both programs admit only a small number of students, while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  . I think part of the time spent at MIT is about finding things you love ... if I have any skill, it’s definitely overloading myself. MIT is ... many close friends that I met later in my MIT journey. And many of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  . is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, who arrived at MIT thinking that ... MIT student's mouth are these: "You know what would be awesome ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... additional $80K). Play Labs is run by Bayview Labs and is being hosted by by MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... , 11.125 is more likely to talk about whether the tests you write for students are formative or summative, and 11.129 is more likely to talk about

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell ... ridiculously quickly, but this is now on the Dot outside the Green Building

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for ... , near the Nyimba province. The travel has been somewhat tiring but it is ... showered since leaving MIT about 3.5 days ago, so I should probably do that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  (aka "Moneyman") has also been updating his Money @ MIT blog and answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out your financial aid forms) should definitely check it out. Mitra is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  wotes.mit.edu @WOTES2015 facebook.com/womenoftheeastside So many ... of the beautiful ladies of the east side of MIT's campus and culture ... goes to a student who lives on the east stide of campus, and the fund is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name ... storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should ... off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  incredible distinction, and one of the best things I've enjoyed at MIT is that ... everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me: Yea, I know that. She's an MIT professor. Friend: No, she's a GENIUS. Me

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  behind the piece: As part of any MIT capital project there is a commission ... . To me, Madrigal is the perfect metaphor for music at MIT: multi ... Banjos & Basements: A Brief History of Music at MIT Music has

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  manager has sidled up to the counter and is standing behind his employee ... talks about how he started out, what he thinks of MIT, and why Khan ... , is the humanity: remember, he was making them for his neice, not for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013